FWIW, payment for overlength is not unusual, and has never been the
metric for whether a journal is "free".
"Free" means (variously):
- access to the material is open and without payment by
the general public
- publication of material is open and without payment by
authors or their representatives (employers, etc.)
Overlength, color page, and other 'extended services' fees were a
typical artifact of paper publication; they make less sense if a venue
is exclusively on-line, but their presence does not mean a venue is "for
fee".
Joe (TCCC Chair)
On 12/2/2011 9:46 PM, Emmanuel Lochin wrote:
> Hi Adam, obviously my university paid and not me. But this is not a free
> journal as you have to pay the extra pages to be published. Other journal
> do not ask you to pay anything.
>
> Emmanuel
>
> Le 2 déc. 2011 23:37, "Prof. Adam Wolisz"<[email protected]> a écrit :
>
>
> Dear All,
> I have NEVER been requested MANDATORY payment - so I have
> consulted the published information for the authors - see below.
> (link and excerpt from this link!)
> The clear statement is:
> Payment is not obligatory nor is it a prerequisite
> for publication.
> (as long as you do not use excess pages!!)
> Best
> adam
> [1]http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs_iportals/iportals/publications/
> authors/transjnl/auinfo07.pdf
> A. Page Charges
> IEEE Policy 6.9 permits some types of periodicals to levy
> Page Charges. If your publication is one of these, it is your
> company or institution, not you, which is being asked for
> support. Payment is not obligatory nor is it a prerequisite
> for publication. Such support is based on the philosophy
> that the usual research or development project is complete
> only when results have been disseminated to the engineering
> and scientific community and that it is thus proper that the
> financing of the project include funds to support, in part, the
> cost of publication. Page charges are widely used throughout
> the scientific publishing community and are widely accepted.
> For example, most U.S. Government agencies recognize the
> payment of page charges as a legitimate part of the cost of
> performing research and development work under Government
> contracts.
> Page charges are levied for each printed page. Payment
> entitles the author to 100 reprints (covers are not included).
> Self-covers and additional reprints may be ordered at the prices
> noted on the IEEE Page Charge and Reprint Order Form.
> B. Mandatory and Overlength Page Charges
> IEEE Policy 6.10 permits some types of periodicals to
> levy mandatory charges for each page in excess of a page
> limit set by that publication. The charge itself is adjusted
> each year to reflect costs. The purpose of this mandatory
> charge is to encourage adherence to the publication's budget
> and to provide funding for excess pages if an author has not
> been able to meet the stated length requirement. The same
> publication may be permitted to request Page Charges as
> well. Please check the wording of your IEEE Page Charges
> and Reprint Order Form carefully.
>
> References
>
> 1.
> http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs_iportals/iportals/publications/authors/transjnl/auinfo07.pdf
>
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